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Re: use of <pre> tag

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From: Julie Dodd
Date: Nov 5, 2010 9:06AM

Thank you Deborah for the suggestion. There are some complexities to
the content that will most likely preclude regular expressions, but I
will make the suggestions to developers.

I agree, Jared. I am going to make my recommendation to properly
markup this content.

Thank you everyone for your thoughtful responses. I do appreciate it!

Julie



>> From the way you describe the legal data, it's possible that
>> adding semantic markup might be relatively simple to automate,
>> especially if you have anyone in the office who is skilled in
>> regular expressions.
>
> Yep! This should be something to look into.
>
> At a minimum, I probably would not present this lengthy information
> using <pre> due to the many accessibility implications already
> discussed. Using <pre> will only make it less accessible.
>
> Jared